One way to help ensure the continued availability of a product you likealbeit an unusual oneis to buy the company that makes it.That's exactly what Lorrie Bos did 10 years ago, when she acquired the assets of Country Harvest Inc., a
Avista Corp., of Spokane, has secured a $90 million loan from Union Bank N.A., of San Francisco, the company disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month.Avista says in the filing that it plans to use
A Washington state agency has leased a sizable space on the fifth floor of the River View Corporate Center, the big Class A office building in Spokane Valley developed by Worthy Enterprises LLC.Jack Marr, director of leasing at Worthy says the a
Liberty Lake-based Greenstone Corp. is continuing to develop Kendall Yards mixed-use development northwest of downtown at a steady pace, recently airing predevelopment plans to construct a $6 million, 56-unit apartment complex, says Jim Frank, The
Construction projects for two trucking-related companies are getting under way near the Interstate 90-Medical Lake interchange on the West Plains.Located a short distance apart along Westbow Lane, the separate projects for Kent, Wash.-based King
With a proxy battle behind it and longtime executives out of office, Spokane-based travel provider Ambassadors Group Inc. believes it will stem a five-year decline and start to build up its traveler volumes again. Meanwhile, interim CEO Anthony
The city of Spokane expects to issue about $65 million in bonds next year and $100 million in 2015 to fund future phases of its integrated clean water plan to reduce the volume of untreated discharges into the Spokane River. Similar to hundreds
Ground Force Worldwide LLC, the Post Falls-based parent company of Ground Force Manufacturing LLC and Underground Force LLC, has launched manufacturing operations on two other continents and is looking to expand to a fourth, says Ron Nilson, the in
Meetings & EventsThe Washington Policy Center, an independent, nonpartisan think tank promoting sound public policy based on free-market solutions, will hold its 2013 Annual Dinner on Thursday, Sept. 5, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Spokane Center,
The Washington state Employment Security Department announced today preliminary July employment data that put the Spokane County unemployment rate at 8.1 percent, down from 8.6 percent in July 2012 but up from 7.9 percent in June.A separate, state